EA FC 25 Preview

EA FC 25 Preview: The distinguished football game, formerly known as FIFA and now EA FC, which is sometimes criticised and sometimes praised by the players every year, has managed to dominate the sector one way or another and has left its competitors behind.

EA FC 25 Preview: As New As Ever

The fact that EA FC has become almost unrivalled in football games scares some players. The underlying reason for this is that EA has no intention to improve itself due to its dominant market power. But despite all this, EA especially values the comments from the community and pays attention to these evaluations.

The fact that sports games are released regularly every year can make it more difficult to make major changes to the games in question. Therefore, sometimes innovations and features criticised or demanded by the community can meet with players after a few generations.

In this context, EA FC, which will make its debut on 20 September this year, will make its debut with new features that will satisfy the vast majority of players. EA, which has made many radical changes and additions in the new game, seems to show how loyal it is to its community this year.

Now that I have kept the introduction of the article too long, I can start sharing details about EA FC 25. I will be explaining each new feature and change under its own heading, and in addition to this, I will be sharing my own thoughts and comments with you.

FC IQ & Rush

Rush Exciting and Interactive Social Experience

Rush is a brand new 5v5 game experience specially designed for friends. This mode is integrated into all existing game modes in EA FC 25.

While introducing this game mode, EA points out that this is not a completely stand-alone separate mode. Rather than offering Rush to players as a stand-alone mode, they have chosen to add it to features that are already functioning well. The first reason for this is that they want to revive and enrich the most preferred gaming experiences with rush, and the second reason is that they aim to provide an optimised gaming experience by adding a new feature on the established order.

With Rush, EA is reinterpreting football with a smaller pitch, making the game 5v5, which is 11v11. While doing this, EA FC 25, which wants to maintain balance and entertainment mechanics, does not make any changes in the basic mechanics in the gameplay. In other words, both the pass and the shot still have the same dynamics and systems.

However, thanks to RUSH, players will be able to spend more time with the ball and take more responsibility in the game and see the results of their behaviour more often. Not only the movements made with the ball, but also the movements you make without the ball and strategic moves such as reading the game will be the nuances that are effective in the game you play. With Rush, 4 people in the team can be real players if they want. The goalkeeper will be controlled by artificial intelligence.

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For a more concentrated experience in a 5′ 5 football match, various iterations of the game are of course necessary. At this point, of course, the pitch size also changes and becomes smaller. However, I would like to emphasise that this is not a very reduced area. EA FC 25 has kept the field big enough for players to be creative and use the space to their advantage. EA officials also make it clear that this is not a street football experience. They even state that they have removed the Volta game mode as a result of community feedback.

With all these, of course, a new stadium is needed for Rush. Here, EA, in cooperation with Nike, plans to play exciting competitions in this stadium with its brand new stadium with a perfectly cool design. Inspired by Nike’s Swoosh, this stadium has managed to create an intriguing work with neon lights, drone shows, the proximity of the spectator seats to the field and environmental atmospheres.

Although EA FC 25 Rush does not change the 11-on-11 football experience, it has actually created differences in the core game experience by bringing some methods that are spoken or locally applied in the football world to the game. It is worth noting that these differences are of course Rush specific.

• Centre Kick: Instead of the classic centre kick, there is a ball launcher at the top and bottom touchlines of the midfield line. These throwers throw the ball randomly into the centre of the pitch. The opposing teams run towards the ball. In fact, we can say that you are trying to reach a ball that has fallen into the centre field in the flowing game. In this way, it is aimed to maintain the movement without disturbing the flow and tempo in the game.
• Blue Card: Depending on the severity of the intervention made as a result of a foul in the game, the player can see a blue card. The player who sees a blue card is out of the game for 1 minute and then returns to the game again.
• Offside: With Rush, offsides will start from the attacking zone instead of the midfield. This allows you to build deeper strategies when defending and attacking in the game.
• Penalty Kicks: Instead of the standard customary penalty, there is a system where you are 1v1 with the goalkeeper and you are in motion. A similar system used to be used in MLS.

FC IQ

FC IQ is a new player-orientated feature that allows you to make your tactical approaches much more in-depth, as the name might suggest. Unlike the Rush feature, this feature will be a feature you use in normal game modes, that is, in 11-on-11 football matches.

Thanks to EA FC IQ, it is a system where you can customise in detail how you want the players on your team to act and behave in different areas such as online games and manager modes.

EA FC plans to bring modern football to players with the 25th FC IQ. Thanks to this mode, you will have the freedom to make tactical changes on football players, as well as using real-world data to see how well they are predisposed to the tasks you have given to the players in the game and how well they can fulfil these tasks.

For the players who don’t fit your tactics but you don’t want to give up, you will be able to try to integrate them into the game by doing special coaching work and you will be able to evolve the players’ games in completely different ways. With the FC IQ mode, there are now more than 50 new roles you can define for players.

This is a great opportunity to bring out your inner Pep Guardiola or José Mourinho. By assigning roles to players, you will not only tell them what to do, but you will also take into account their style of play and how they think, and when necessary, you will be able to intervene and make changes to the way players think and perceive the game.

Gameplay & Matchday Experience

Goalkeepers’ Qualifications Increase

EA FC 25 officials stated that while the player features introduced last year were highly appreciated by the players, the community expressed that the skills offered for goalkeepers were insufficient. With EA FC 25, new goalkeeper features are now available in the game.

Weather Conditions Directly Affect Gameplay.

With EA FC 25, dynamic weather conditions are integrated into the game as another feature that affects the game. The intensity and direction of the wind on the field can play an effective role in your control over the ball. Especially in set-pieces, winds can play a decisive role. Whether you use a free kick or a corner, you may need to change your usage habits when there is a particularly strong wind on the field.

On slippery surfaces, players can slip and fall when moving or shooting. Ball physics can also behave differently on wet surfaces. The choices you make in such weather conditions can reveal different results. This actually offers us a more realistic structure that we love in football.

New Strikes Arrived

As in almost every game of the series, new skill moves have been added to the game in EA FC 25. These skill moves, which can be performed in smaller steps, allow you to eliminate your opponent more smoothly with the renewed animation system.

Tactical Fouls

In real life football competitions, we sometimes witness the defending team committing tactical fouls against the attacking team. With EA FC 25, we will now be able to commit tactical fouls with the right analogue when necessary. However, the penalty for this behaviour will directly result in a yellow card. If you repeat the behaviour for the second time, the referee will not hesitate to issue a red card.

Passing is more difficult now. Passes are more precise and there are more mistakes. Consequently, a good passer will still be able to pass, but his qualities should be sufficient depending on the specificity of the pass.

I’m curious to see how this feature will work out, especially in 5v5 Rush competitions.

EA FC 25 RTX

We will now start to see ray tracing technology, which has become a standard in many games, in EA FC games. EA FC 25 offers two different Graphics modes as Advanced and standard graphics mode.

Both modes are set to be locked to 60 fps as standard. Of course, you can change the details from the menu if you want. The advanced setting offers you 4k resolution, better lighting and ray tracing technology.

EA FC 25 Career Mode

More Realistic Leagues with Opta

EA FC 25 will now use the Opta export in career mode. In this way, players will be able to experience a more realistic league experience. This will allow them to stay in the game more. After all, seeing Karagümrük Sports Club in the championship race can take the player out of reality, which can damage the enjoyment of the game.

Detailed Young Talent System

With EA FC 25, we are witnessing a revolution in simulation football games. For the first time in a football game with this game, we will have playable young players. In the career mode, we will be able to play fast matches with young players in our infrastructure. It doesn’t matter whether these matches are 11v11 or 5v5 Rush. In any case, we will be able to experience young talents either with their starting rating or with the maximum rating they can reach. In this way, we will be able to understand what it feels like to play with the young players we are raising, and we will be able to set up a more accurate training system and give them the right instructions according to our game system.

Also, whether you are looking for young talent or an experienced player, you can now perform specific searches in 160 different countries. This gives you the opportunity to build exactly the players you are looking for and the team you want. Moreover, the young talents you find will not be just 16-year-old big men with beards. Just like Arda Güler and Lamine Yaman, they will look really young both physically and in terms of facial features.

Instead of just giving training instructions to develop your young talents, you will now be able to directly influence their development by participating in youth team tournaments with them and you will be able to access more detailed analyses and reports about them at the end of the match.

Women’s Football Option Coming to Career Mode

EA, which wants to destroy the perception that football is a sports industry dominated by men and is determined to do so, continues to maintain this attitude in its new game and continues to build on its work.

We will now be able to take part in women’s football leagues in career mode and experience playing as a female footballer in more depth.

Simulation Experience

EA FC 25 seems to have a good understanding of what the community wants. For a long time, players have been asking for much more in-depth options, especially in the manager career mode, and have been voicing this at every opportunity. With EA FC 25, this dream of the players has been partially, if not completely, realised.

Firstly, let me talk about a more casual experience. Actually, this is a bit different from the standard mode. With this option, players who wish can enjoy playing football by only dealing with transfers, formation and tactics.

Simulation mode is almost like a challenge for the players. You will be able to see that artificial intelligence takes different measures depending on your behaviour, formation, tactics and playing methods.

In this mode, where you manage many things about football, not only on the field, managing team morale, pre-match press releases and your style of play will be an impressive factor in your player choices depending on these styles. You will be able to quickly see the results of the decisions you will make in the game and the tactical decisions you will make on the field.

We will be able to customise the career mode more. Depending on the preference of the players, you can experience the experience of managing and living in a football organisation with a more challenging mode where you manage much more about football, or you can enjoy just playing football with a more mundane experience, focusing only on football and simple issues such as making transfers.

Interface Changes

EA plans to offer players a more accessible gaming experience with the new interface to be used in Career mode, and plans to reinforce the user experience with a more accessible, understandable and easy interface in many different areas, from easier access to in-game social media activities to transfer planning. In-game news will now be more and more realistic. You will also be able to see the comments made by the fans under the news.

Customise your character’s appearance in more detail

With advanced skull technology, you will now be able to make much more advanced character appearance customisations in EA FC 25. You will also be able to choose a background story for your character. Depending on where you come from and who you are, some of your basic abilities will be enhanced and some will be weak.

Maybe you’re someone from the streets or a footballer returning from a serious injury, writing your own story and witnessing different in-game events depending on the results of these choices can be quite exciting.

Ultimate Team & Clubs

Ultimate Team Rush

In this new version where 4 players will play together, each player includes the player he wants to include in the game from his own squad and plays the game with that character. For this, you need to set up a Rush lobby in the first place. The lobby you will create will be for 4 people in total. Apart from yourself, you have the right to invite 3 more friends to this lobby. If you don’t have enough friends to invite, it’s okay. At this point EA FC 25 finds teammates for you and allows you to make the most accurate match. Players win prizes as a group after each match and can expand their roster with these prizes.

During the year, we will witness many different Rush events in EA FC 25 Ultimate Team. For example, La Liga Rusg event. While participating in this event, you will participate in the lobby you set up with your friends with players from LA Liga. This is actually an important factor that shows that Rush will be used quite effectively throughout the season.

In addition, with Rush, you can team up with your friends and each event will give you the opportunity to receive bonuses. In order to receive these bonuses, players must choose to play players in the positions the game recommends. This is not mandatory, but it is an option you can consider if you want to get extra bonuses.

You will also receive special Rush points after each Rush event. With the Rush points you get, you will be able to progress in season missions and expand your squad with these points.

KKG Storage Area

With EA FC 25, if there are copies of the players in the packages we open, we will no longer have to go through the ordeal of taking their photos and using them in KKG as we used to. Instead, we will be able to use these players in squad building missions whenever we want by sending these players to a KKG storage area with a total of 100 players.

At the end of the presentation we attended, EA officials pointed out a remarkable point. This is that Ultiamte Team and Clubs mode now intersect at certain points. As the officials stated in the presentation, players who play Clubs can lag behind Ultimate Team and players who play Ultimate Team can lag behind Clubs mode. EA FC 25 has determined the points where the progress in both game modes intersect with each other in order to soften this difference to some extent. No clear information was given on exactly how this process will work. Especially as a player who plays both game modes but mainly plays Pro Clubs mode, this news made me happy.

You can reach the official website from here.

Clubs Rush

Clubs Rush is the area that EA characterises as more competitive. Although it works depending on the dynamics I have expressed many times in the article, playing in coordination with your friends is extra important here in terms of competition.

In addition, Rush, which will directly affect the club’s ranking, will also allow you to get more rewards. You can participate in this event as a team, or you can participate alone, just like in the on-foot mode. In this case, you will be paired with players close to your ranking score.

Again in this game mode, you will be able to earn Rush points from the games you play and use the Rush points you earn to improve your clubs in Ultiamte team.

Club Facilities

Now our club will have its own budget with the successes we get from the matches and this budget will increase depending on the successes. By purchasing trainers and cards according to your club budget, you can provide them with features that only provide extra benefits to real players.

For example, by purchasing a 2-star shooting coach, you can improve the shooting skills of your teammates more.

New Interface

With EA FC 25 Pro Clubs, a renewed, simpler and more enjoyable interface is now waiting for us players. In addition, we find ourselves in the locker room in the team lobby and we can feel the team spirit in a better way. With customisable club areas and locker rooms, the way for players to better experience the club atmosphere is clearly paved.